Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Poem about Hermundr Illugason 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 11.
Hjalp, dýrr konungr, dýrum,
dags grundar, Hermundi.
{Dýrr konungr {grundar dags}}, hjalp dýrum Hermundi.
‘Excellent king of the land of day [SKY/HEAVEN > = God], save the excellent Hermundr. ’
The couplet is one of five fragments by Arnórr which Snorri cites, among others, to illustrate kennings for ‘sky/heaven’ in Skm.
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